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Ecclesiastes 7:25

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I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

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  1. Ecclesiastes 7:23

    All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

  2. Ecclesiastes 7:24

    That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?

  3. Ecclesiastes 7:26

    And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

  4. Ecclesiastes 7:27

    Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:

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